From: Y R LEROUX Subject: Re: Mid East Peace by Columbia Games > I couldn't find anything on Grognards about Mid East Peace, a multiplayer > game from Columbia Games. Any comments on this one? A very fun, and frustrating! game. It simulates the MidEast peace situation very well. It plays a lot like Diplomacy with oil as money. It's been a while, but briefly: - every player plays a middle eastern country. - every country has a petroleum value - every action costs oil Every turn, you decide what you want to do: - attack a neighbour (1 oil per unit in the attack) - build an army (1 oil per unit) - defend yourself from an attack (1 oil per unit defending) - stockpile your oil Other highlights: You can align yourself with one of the superpowers (US or Russia), but if you do, you cannot attack other countries aligned with the same superpower. All players get one UN vote per oil point, and can decide to impose/permit a UN Peacekeeping Force in a specific country. At the end of the game (I forget how the end is determined, but I think it's a fixed number of turns), you can win one of two ways: - if there's peace, he who has the most oil wins. - if there's war, then he who has the most armies wins. It's incredibly hard to negotiate/settle anything. :-) Just like real life! Roger --- Roger Leroux The Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers will be systematically moved to the place where they rleroux1@uvic.ca can do the least damage -- management.